Fr Gordon Barnier to be Ordained in Australian Ordinariate

Fr Gordon Barnier is the former Vicar General of the Church of Torres Strait (TAC).

On the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross website:

Gordon Barnier of the Church of the Torres Strait will be ordained to serve in the Ordinariate of OLSC. He will be ordained deacon , probably in St Francis Xavier’s Church, West Cairns at 7-00 pm on Wednesday 24th April and ordained priest in St Monica’s Cathedral at 7-00 pm on Friday April 26th. Both ordinations will be conducted by the Most Rev James Foley, Bishop of Cairns.

All this while the Anglican ambassador to the Vatican, Australian Canon David Richardson, a former dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne, recently held that the Australian Ordinariate will ‘not last more than 20 years’.